EVERETT — Three cities in Snohomish County will receive a combined $3.3 million in grant funding to go toward road safety improvements, largely for pedestrians and cyclists, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, announced Saturday.
Everett will receive $1.2 million. One project the funding will pay for is an update to its Active Transportation Plan, covering pedestrian and cyclist networks. Everett implemented a bicycle master plan in 2011 and is continuing work on its Vision Zero plan, which aims to reduce deaths and serious injuries for all road users.
The grant will also fund a plan to improve safety and operations along Evergreen Way, and a smaller pilot program that will use video detection and signal controllers — computers that manage the timing of traffic signals — to measure data on traffic signals that could inform future technological upgrades to the city’s transportation infrastructure.
Mill Creek will receive $1.8 million in grant funding. That will pay for tests of quick-build bike lanes and enhanced crossings, a corridor study, Safe Routes to School plans, a lighting assessment, and an education and enforcement campaign.
Mukilteo is set to receive $300,000 to pay for a comprehensive safety action plan, which will include an analysis of crashes and high-injury areas of the road network and an action plan to reduce deaths or serious injuries for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians.
Will Geschke: 425-339-3443; william.geschke@heraldnet.com; X: @willgeschke.
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